Regimental number | 3538 |
Place of birth | Geelong Victoria |
Religion | Presbyterian |
Occupation | Farmer |
Address | Connewarre East, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 33 |
Next of kin | Father, Robert Fuller, Connewarre East, Victoria |
Previous military service | Nil (previously rejected for AIF enlistment on account of being medically unfit) |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 29th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/46/3 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A67 Orsova on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 29th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Age at death from cemetery records | 33 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 115 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Robert and Susanna FULLER, Connewarre East, Victoria; husband of Mrs A. FULLER, Brisbane |
Family/military connections | Brother: 1135 Pte William Jacob FULLER, 5th Bn, killed in action, 25 April 1915; Cousin: 3464 Pte Robert Mosman BARNETT, 58th Bn, killed in action, 1 July 1918. |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Red Cross File, Statement, 196 Pte T.J. CARROLL, A Company, 29th Bn, 26 November 1917: 'He was in A Co., 3rd Pltn. He was medium height and build,; fair; about 20. On the 26th Sept. we advanced from our front line. Our objective was Polygon Wood. Fuller was killed by concussion during the advance. There were no marks on his body. I buried him; he had a Field Burial. We took and held the ground, and were relieved on the 28th.' Grave subsequently lost. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Sources | Red Cross File 1120514E |